Manjunath Nayaker is an Indian actor who is well known for his lead role in Malgudi Days in which his screen name was Master Manjunath. Manjunath started acting at the age of three and since then has been part of 68 movies in Kannada and Hindi. He also played the role of young Vijay Deenanath Chauhan in Agneepath (1990), which starred Amitabh Bachchan. He quit acting at the age of 19 to concentrate on his studies and is now a PR professional running his own PR consultancy company.